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title: "The Hitchhiker's Guide to KERI, parts 1 to 3"
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# The Hitchhiker's Guide to KERI, parts 1 to 3

The first of a three-part introductory blog series, answering why one would adopt KERI. It traces digital identity from centralized and federated models to blockchain-based decentralized identity and argues that KERI, having no distributed consensus mechanism, avoids the blockchain trilemma, for newcomers.

Labels: reading level Introductory; evidence informative (an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite).
Source: https://medium.com/finema/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-keri-part-1-51371f655bba (license not recorded).
The abstract is KSKB's own text under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/; credit KSKB, the KERISuite Knowledge Base (https://kskb.dev/).
Found through KERISSE, the KERI Suite Search Engine (Kor Dwarshuis and Henk van Cann), whose dataset is the source of the documents the base indexes.